Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 3127 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
WANDERING IN WENSLYDALE | 1949 | 1949-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 12 mins Credits: Cyril and Betty Ramsden Subject: COUNTRYSIDE / LANDSCAPES RURAL LIFE SPORT TRAVEL |
Summary This film contains footage of Betty, Cyril and two of their friends as they visit Wensleydale. The couple were semi-professional filmmakers filming both for pleasure and taking on commissions from companies such as the Yorkshire Evening Post. |
Description
This film contains footage of Betty, Cyril and two of their friends as they visit Wensleydale. The couple were semi-professional filmmakers filming both for pleasure and taking on commissions from companies such as the Yorkshire Evening Post.
Title-Wandering in Wensleydale
The film opens in a small village with views of the cottages and countryside.
Betty and a male friend come out of the `Wensleydale Inn' and walk off down the road. A female friend then exits the inn and walks off...
This film contains footage of Betty, Cyril and two of their friends as they visit Wensleydale. The couple were semi-professional filmmakers filming both for pleasure and taking on commissions from companies such as the Yorkshire Evening Post.
Title-Wandering in Wensleydale
The film opens in a small village with views of the cottages and countryside.
Betty and a male friend come out of the `Wensleydale Inn' and walk off down the road. A female friend then exits the inn and walks off too.
Cyril and Betty and the other couple walk off down a country lane.
Title-West Burton
Betty and her female friend are down beside the river. Betty helps her to get down off some rocks. This is followed by a shot of the two men walking off down a country path.
The two couples wander into the `Fox and Hounds Inn' and have a drink outside.
Title-Aysgarth Fall
Shots of the waterfall, an extended sequence shows the water flowing into the river. The group sit on the rocky banks of the river.
Title-Wensley
The group walk through a woodland area, and they then come to some fields where some cows graze. There are then different views of the village, the roads, cottages and surrounding countryside.
Title-Redmire Force
This is followed by views of the area, the rivers and woodland.
Title-Bolton Hall
The couples climb over a gate and walk across a field. They then make their way across a small stream by stepping stones. There are views of the grand hall and its grounds.
Title-Pheasants Nest
There is a shot of small eggs in a nest.
Title-Amphibians
The group then cross another river via some stepping stones. This time they hold large wooden sticks to balance themselves as they navigate their way across.
Title-The Gallops
Shots of jockeys and horses galloping together across a long field. Some of the parts are in slow motion.
The group walks back to the village; Cyril and a male friend leave the Inn with suitcases.
Title-The End
Cyril won an award for the film from the Leeds Camera Club
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